So, uh, one of the two male skaters who are part of our adult coterie asked me to be his ice dance partner after the adult session today ( Read more... )

I wish this had been a thing when I was in the ballroom dance club at college. I guess the dancing reality shows didn't really get popular until after I graduated, though ( Read more... )

THE PINK MONSTER LIVES.

( Context, for those of you left scratching your heads. Also relevant.)

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I was watching this Scott Hamilton special from 2003, in which Renee Roca and Gorsha Sur do a program to a bossa nova. They have a section at the end where they're doing what basically amounts to cha-cha on skates, and I noticed that they make the exact same Cheesy Latin Face (tm) I do when I'm doing the Latin and Rhythm dances! Also the exact ( Read more... )

I did ballroom dance tonight! It was awesome! There's a group of about 100 that meets on Monday nights, when they have a (very, very basic) lesson in one dance that changes every month, such as tonight's west coast swing. Then they basically have a dance party afterwards. The age of the group tended well north of mine, but that was okay. Lots ( Read more... )

Dude! There's actually a social/ballroom/popular dance reader out there! That is so cool. And useful for my paper, too.

Hurrah! I got a response from my prof about my planned paper topic. I can go ahead and write it. She agreed that the section I had planned on dance in 30s movie musicals might be a stretch, and that the material might work better as a gesture in the conclusion, but said to give it a shot anyway(!!!). Apparently there's a Katherine Mansfield ( Read more... )

Discofox. Exactly what it sounds like.In the "related videos" with footage from the championships, I'm having trouble telling it apart from hustle. The steps in the linked video, though, are very obviously indebted to foxtrot. Just...done to disco music. My brain kind of hurts right now ( Read more... )

This BPM-measurement widget for the Mac is WAY COOL. You tap the beat on your keyboard as the song plays, and it measures the beats per minute, then allows you to write it to the iTunes listing for the song. SO COOL. Grated, I have little practical use for it--although it might've helped narrow down the range of percentages to which I needed to ( Read more... )

I was not expecting this to work nearly as well as it does. (It does seem to fall apart a bit near the end, but the beginning is really impressive. You know, I think my cha-cha would've improved about a hundred percent had I been wearing tap shoes instead of Latin heels.)